 Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable barrier against the Tartar horse; and Europe is secure from any future irruption of barbarians, since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.  The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart - Page 483by John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 547 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...might someday terrorize Europe again, Gibbon defines its impossibility with remarkable complacency. "Europe is secure from any future irruption of Barbarians;...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | Harold Dwight Lasswell, Myres Smith Macdougal - 1992 - 1642 pages
...not overlook the many examples of well-considered predictions. Consider Edward Gibbon's remark that "Europe is secure from any future irruption of Barbarians;...since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous."13 In the sense that Gibbon had in mind, this is true, since the attacker of Europe must... | |
 | Robert A. Nisbet - 392 pages
...sciences, and such progress will be under the tutelage of the West. Europe, Gibbon assures us, ... is secure from any future irruption of Barbarians;...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 1996 - 204 pages
...war; and the adverse parties oppose to each other the most elaborate modes of attack and of defence... Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable...since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarians. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 2000 - 350 pages
...industrious people should be protected by those arts, which survive and supply the decay of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 pages
...(117761788) beruhigend fest, "now form an impregnable barrier against the Tartar horse; and Europa is secure from any future irruption of barbarians;...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would allways be accompanied .... with a proportionable... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pages
...v,rfminn in France, 1 89l is also a reworking of Gibbon. Empire in the West': 'Cannon and fortifirations now form an impregnable barrier against the Tartar...since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.r'4 From Gibbon's standpoint, however, it cannot have been comfortable to have his ideas... | |
 | Daniel Deudney - 2007 - 418 pages
...industrious people should be protected by those arts which survive and supply the decay of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | 1864 - 664 pages
...protected by those arts which should always be taught to accompany the progress of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | Edgell Rickword - 1927 - 370 pages
...Johnny Hudgins and AllStar Cast of Coloured Artists". Certainly, Gibbon's reassurance still holds, that "Europe is secure from any future irruption of barbarians...before they can conquer they must cease to be barbarous . . . and themselves deserve a place among the polished nations whom they subdue". But intellectual... | |
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